Dr. Karolina La Fors, post-doc researcher at eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University, together with a consortium consisting of Milieu Consulting (leader of the consortium), the Free University of Amsterdam (CLI-Centre for Law and Internet), the University of Leuven (Centre for IT and IP Law) and the University of Namur (Research Centre in Information, Law and Society- CRIDS) has won a framework contract commissioned by the EDPB for four years. The Framework contract has the title: EDP/2019/02 - Studies on the implication of several GDPR provisions, case laws and other laws having an impact on data protection.
Winning this contract facilitates interested staff members of eLaw to conduct research on several case studies assigned by the EDPB. In the first year of the project 7 case studies will be carried out by the cooperation of eLaw's scholars and the members of the four universities and Milieu Consulting. The case study topics for the first-year range, for instance, from 'assessing the data protection in the judiciary within the EU' through 'studying the big data applications in the European insurance sector' to 'evaluating the practices of data brokers in light of core GDPR principles'. By contributing to such case studies over the course of four years eLaw's academic contribution can constructively influence EDPB's understanding of the mutual implications of both GDPR and the norm-setting changes big-data driven technological innovation brings along in a wide range of practices throughout Europe.
